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Anthropologists seemed shocked last fall when they announced that our Neanderthal cousins saved bones to suck the marrow later or perhaps to cook up a soup. But, food caches can be found among most living beings, including insects and plants.
Read moreBlack Lives Matter. I say that to forestall any who might accuse me of trying to marginalize that movement. Not so. George Floyd, Breona Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery should be alive today. Their lives mattered. Their family and friends are poorer
Read moreMy last pre-pandemic outing was to Lawton to attend a reading from my favorite living poet, Naomi Shihab Nye of San Antonio. I have been a fan for 35 years. Seeing and hearing her was special. She puts words together
Read moreWhen the threat of the coronavirus surfaced at the first of the year, America’s loud-mouthed presidential bully was too scared to take any health-related action for fear of wrecking the economic Obama Bump, which he had been trying to claim
Read moreThe 2016 election of Donald Trump revealed the depth of American racism. The coronavirus outbreak of 2020 has exposed our raw greed. Trump and the Republicans have consistently called for American deaths in order to keep the economy profitable to
Read moreMemorial Day without the Indy 500 means that my second major holiday of the year (following Opening Day) has been deferred because of the coronavirus pandemic. Another sure staple of the day is a profusion of war movies from
Read more“A few storms may be severe.” How often do we hear that refrain? May in Oklahoma. ‘Tis the season to duck and cover. Twice recently, here near the center of Duncan, I have watched the TV weatherfolk track violent weather
Read moreAlong with getting eaten alive by chiggers, some of my earliest memories of southern Oklahoma are sitting on the front porch at Addington while older relatives “watched the clouds.” In those days before elaborate weather radars, legions of storm chasers
Read moreAbout 30 years ago, my doctor told me that I needed to lose about 40 pounds. “Tommy, if I lost 40 pounds, I’d be dead.” Regrettably, my subconscious registered his wisdom as a challenge. Instead of losing 40 pounds –
Read morePerhaps it is a political corollary to a philosophical dilemma. But, the implications in the public arena say they should have at least equal billing. The question before the board is whether it is easier to be a Trumpista awaiting
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